The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-07-18
PERSONAL.

IT Is SAID that Sarah Bernhardt invested the
bulk of the money made here last season in
American real estate.
LoRp LUCAN, who has just been made a Field
Marshal is & years old, and has served in the
British army seventy one years.
IT is SAID that Mollie Garfield, daughter of
the late President Garfield will soon wed I
Stanley Brown, her fathers private secretary.
The King of Sweden has appointed a Swedish
State agent to live in Manchester, for the pur-
pose of extending the sale of Swedish dairy
produce in England
JOHN RUsKIN says that Scotch is 1.-THE sweet
est richest. subtlest. most musical of all the
living dialects of Europe John must have
been brought up on oatmeal.
JOHN G. WHITTIER is actively engaged in the
preparations To celebrate on July p the 18th
birthday anniversary of Rev. Edwin Thompson
the pioneer anti-Slayery agitator and temperance
advocate.
THE most popular woman in the diplomatic
circle at Athens is said to be Nine. Bakhmetiew
wife OF the first secretary of the Russian Iega-
tion. She is the daughter Of Gen. Beae, of
Washington.
REV DR.. J. G. EDGHILL, who has been elected
BlSnop OF Nova Scotia, has high reputation as
an eloquent preacher, and is well known in Hall
fax where he has served for years as garrison
chaplain. He is an ultra High Churchman.
THOMAS HARRISON, a brother of x-Nlayor Car
ter Harrison, of Chicago, is spending the sum
mer at Martha's Vineyard Many years ago he
was known as the boy preacher" and aCuuired
a considerable reputation for conducting church
revivalS.
IT Is ANNOUNCED in the Louisville Courier
Journal that Henry Watterson has been direct
ed by his physician to cancel all his engage
mentS for public speaking in the Kentucky
campaign; He win spend the summer with his
family at Block Island
NJ DE QuArREFAGEs and II. NJ. Cbeyaler
have given their adhesion to the theory which
is taught as to the Aryan race in its earliest
records that the migrations of peoples in re-
mote antiquity were provoked by the gradual
Increase OF cold in the Northern regions
CoUNT Won MoLTKE recently wrote to a coun
tryman-a baSketmaker-who had expressed
his reverence for the Field Marshal in rhyme:
Esteemed countryman, thank you for the pa
trotic poems and hope you may live to make
baskets and write poetry for many years"
The engineer of the first locomotive that ever
left St. Louis for the West, and the engineer of
the first steamboat that ever arrived at ST
Louis, was William J, Haynes, of ST, Louis, who
is Just closing a century of life He was on the
stan of Gen. jackson at the battle of New Or
leans
WILLIAM GLENN, the wholesale grocer, of Gin
cinnati though VI years of age, is one of the
most wideawake business men in town Mr.
Glenn comes from a family noted for longevity
His uncle James Hubbard, living near Indian.
apols' is lO3 years old and still bright and
clipper
of the United States. is greatly enjoying life in
his tent home on Pablo Beach, Fla. At 80 years
of age be is as genial and hearty As ever and
welcomes hosts ofVsitors. He Is a particular
ly successful fisherman, and envious rivals saw
that when worms are scarce he usos his sigma
ture for bait.
THE will Of Samuel Jones Tilden." says the
IdH Mai Gazette, who was candidate for the
Presidency OF the Cntedstates, late Of Greystone,
Ionkcrs county of WeStchester, State Of New
York, counsellor at law, who died on Aug
last, was proved in London on juno Is the value
OF the personal estate in this country amount
ing 20 over tl3S,o00."
GOOD deal Of fun has been made recently
over Roscoe Conkling'S desire 20 be considered
young man. When entertained by the Grant
Club at Chicago the other day he said II first
saw Chicago thirty years ago. You know how
young was then-a good strong nurse held me
up IN her arms and said. That's Chicago"
Mr.: Conkling was a bouncing baby Of twenty
eight years when the nurse IN question held him
In her arms.